The Tanakh Podcast

What happens when we cannot trust the integrity of public officials? In this chapter David expresses his desire to be surrounded by and to implement a public culture of "temimut" - honesty, rectitude, virtue, integrity, and trust.

Does Judaism have a mitzva to be happy? Is there a relationship between gratitude and happiness?

Mizmor 99 gives us a window into the paradoxical and dialectical encounter with the Divine Presence. Music. Naor Carmi - Longing

The nations all burst into song when they appreciate God's salvation of the Jewish People

God is coming to establish justice, order and decency in the world. God's arrival i surrounded by clear delight along with melting and quaking mountains, fire, cloud and darkness - features that mirror God's revelation at Mount Sinai. God's presence establishes a clear choice between good and evil.

Today we identify a deliberate structure of Psalms 95-100 which form them into a self-contained unit.

This chapter is familiar to most of us as the opening of Kabbalat Shabbat. But there is a strange shift from the first segment to the second. Why does the chapter transition from joy to rebuke and warning?

How does faith respond to suffering? - In a variety of ways. This Mizmor gives us several vantage points on the experience of suffering - protest, rebuke, faith, a call to divine retribution and justice. This is a sophisticated multifaceted treatment of injustice and evil.

God's Majesty! Crashing waves! We will read this Psalm as depicting a narrative of chaos and rupture in the face of an ordered and harmonious world.

What is the connection between this Mizmor and Shabbat?